Auckland & Hamilton Airports - Misc Pics

[HamiltonWest]

Misc 26-2-14

[HamiltonWest]

Same Dash as above but a few days earlier.

[HamiltonWest]

Driving Home from work a lil while ago Past Ham Airport - nearly drove off the road spotted a Huey Hovering over the Runway.


Police 3 Lifting out of Hamilton Airport this morning off for a spot of weed whacking.

[Ian Warren]

Not like the deer hunters down south, I bet that officer is tied on to the helicopter

[tomkilpatrick]

Brilliant shots! Thanks Ham

[Splitpin]

[HamiltonWest]

Tom & Marty

[HamiltonWest]

3-3-14

[Ian Warren]

A2A month this is, be an ideal paint 'Police 5', low and slow watching for criminals

[Ian Warren]

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low and slow watching for criminals [/quote]
Twas Doing exactly that Ian although Think it was looking for some Green stuff.

Last edited by HamiltonWest on Mon Mar 03, 2014 6:30 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[Ian Warren]

I do wonder why the line was so long, the pendulum affect course easy to catch a missed ground cable ..

[Splitpin]

Used to do it with Hueys ... no spray , winch a guy or two down , rip it out and load it onboard.
I have clear mental pictures of cabins 100% full of the stuff ... going home with green fingers and seeds in your boots , i think we sowed more seeds than the growers. That downwash from the rotors pushed them way down in the dirt (seeds)
On the south canterbury hunts , any "catch" was taken to Timaru hospital and burnt in their furnace after the cops did their bit .
The whole thing was a waste of time really , we would arrive on day one .... do a recce with the local law , find the plots , and retire to the hotel for the night. Next morning fly out and find .... nothing, all dug up over night. Now and again we would find a good plot , mostly under or near power lines , along with all the irrigation gear.
Some of these guys went to great trouble to conceal the crop , from the ground anyway. I remember being on the ground with a local Oamaru cop looking at a solid wall of gorse .... behind which, were about 500 mature plants , being watered and feed .... but only seen from above.

Only had one instance when a dude pointed a shotgun at the aircraft , the pilot was onto it real quick , and the guys on the ground got him .

Ahhhh , the good old days ... all gone now i guess , since the cops learnt to fly

[HamiltonWest]

Marty
Air Force Still go out weeding weed
http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/97...l-cannabis-cull

[Ian Warren]

They should be able to hall out a hell of a lot more with a NH, but I funny a funny susception not this early in there debut, a whooping great six and a half ton Helicopter may be a little more costly and last thing adding to the mix is overhead cables .

[Splitpin]

Cheers Ham .... good to see. I remember (always remembering) designing a patch for 3 Det "dope busters" .... never got it made , but the proof hung on the wall for a long time , its more than likely somewhere in the museum now.

[HamiltonWest]

QUOTE (Splitpin @ Mar 4 2014,6:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Cheers Ham .... good to see. I remember (always remembering) designing a patch for 3 Det "dope busters" .... never got it made , but the proof hung on the wall for a long time , its more than likely somewhere in the museum now.

Marty

[Splitpin]

Great shot Ham .... shows just how rural that area is .... beautiful sky

[HamiltonWest]

QUOTE (Splitpin @ Mar 4 2014,6:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Cheers Ham .... good to see. I remember (always remembering) designing a patch for 3 Det "dope busters" .... never got it made , but the proof hung on the wall for a long time , its more than likely somewhere in the museum now.

Link to 3news video of NZ3814 & police up north over the past wk.
http://www.3news.co.nz/Police-destroy-2m-o...28/Default.aspx


Air NZ Boeing 737 Northbound over Ham this arvo, tail gating an Airbus by a few mins.

[Ian Warren]

Ham .. Sean , my first every photo on my camera beats that one ..... and that from a newbie

[HamiltonWest]

ZK-MVD 6-3-14